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1 rack finals See Sports Rain couldnt stop the show Rain dampen spirits or put a halt to the annual Optimist fireworks display Bang 0 Rama saluted Queen Victorias birthday in style For a record of the event see page A5 Legion debut See family the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1 WEDNESDAY MAY 22 1985 Newspaper cops another award The Halton Hills Herald reolved media honors last Tuesday for an editorial Regional Police Force annual awards night The unction held in Burlington honors members of the community who have made outstanding contribution to the maintenance law and order or public safety It also incorporates the distribution or the police exemplary service medals first annual media awards community club awards and special awards The Herald received a first runner up award for an editorial about police action taken lo curb loitering The Hamilton Special or four awards while the Oakvilte Beaver also placed in four categories Thanks to the on work of Champion photographer Jon Borgstrom thai newspaper placed in three news photo categories Summer pipe dreams A Georgetown resident will be leaching others how lo blow into bagpipes this summer Virginia is an instructor with the Sheridan College school of piping summer school The program runs from July July 14 A teacher by profession Mrs Is a resident instructor at Sheridan College She has been Pipe Major of the Georgetown Girls Pipe Towns racing are you Hove you started your training yet Time s running out The annual mayor road race is June The region is expected to voice no objection to the road race using part of Mountain view Road at Del rex Boulevard The Hills recreation and parks department has arranged for regional police control at the intersection Tourism study chat How can Halton lure more tourists Into the region to spend little and big bucks Find out May Carolyn Kcams and Steve of Peter Barnard Associates will be making a detailed presentation on a tourism study recently undertaken for regional councillors From A Tourism Strategy for will be presented to the public Seating is limited and reservations are required with Cathy Nunn with the Halton Business Development Department at extension There no charge for the seminar It takes place at the Holiday Inn in Burlington Write about park use If you vc got some ideas on how the Ontario Heritage Foundation should be using the 540 acres of property bequeathed to it by Stewart and Lelty Bennett Jane Holmes wants to hear them Ms Holmes is a planner with Sears and Russell Consultants a Toronto company hired to dos feasibility study for the Balllnafad farmlands Written submissions should be sent to Jane Holmes Sears and Russell Consultants Davenport Toronto M5R The company will be holding a public meeting once viable options for using property have been narrowed down Ms Holmes said Otto will participate The Honourable Otto Jclinek Minister of Fitness and Amateur Sport will perform his fifteen minutes of physical activity for the Great Canadian Panic inaction Challenge in his riding of Joining Mr Wednesday May at 1 15 will be Mayor Barrett Mr Jelinek will start off leading the fifteen minute outside exercise class at the Town Hall After completing these fifteen minutes of continuous physical activity all participants must telephone in their participation to Over IBS communities across Canada will be this year House aflame Vlnce Panel la found his house ablaze on the comer of 10 and Trafalgar Road Saturday Damage to the house is estimated at about Firefighters battled the flames from around 10 a m until 30 m Seventeen men responded from the Georgetownbased station The blaze Is thought to have started in the area of the furnace said Fire Chief Bill Cunningham Kelso camp Don t wait any longer The Georgetown YMCA Is taking registrations for Kelso day camp Day camp options Include computer camp sailing camp program and French on Also available is creative arts camp and new this year riding camp Stop by the office today to pick up a day camp brochure or call for more Information Two Legion parades June is parade month for the Royal Canadian of Georgetown June the Legion wants to hold a Decoration Day Parade at 2 p from the Go Station parking lot to Greenwood Cemetery and back June 22 also at m at the Georgetown Fairgrounds a second parade toNnM 8RAKES 4MBlk ALIGNMENT TIRES Guslph Stmt Brand new sewage digester means Georgetown can grow By AM JUAN Herald Staff Without loo much argument at last weeks regional planning and public works committee Ho lion Hills councillors gat a commitment far a new digester for the Georgetown sewage treatment plant The l 3 million machinery breaks sew age down Into sludge Rich in nitrogen and ammonia sludge Is used by the agricultural community fertilize and enrich soil The digester now in use in Georgetown ha an been fully operational for a long time planning and public works direct or Bob Moore said II sworn out in poor repair he said A planning and public works report last week recommended that Instead of a new dige ster be spent to upgrade the water lion control plant digc- We were it be delayed pending other studies Mr Moore said He raid the region has been looking Into Georgetown using Peel sewage treatment plant and water system Instead or forking out 3 million on a new for Georgetown this year Mr Moore wanted money to be put towards studying this a I tenia live However councillors Mi such a study would lake least five years if not 10 It would need operation between staff al the two regions and politicians besides approval from I he Mini of the Environment Councillors overturned he planning director suggestion and pushed forward with the new digester Problems with sewage treatment capacity could mean no further growth for Georgetown and no increase In lax base despite Sccon Plans and studies being complete Mike Armstrong said Planning and public works committee also approved additional funds of for detailed engineering required because of railway crossing near the water main being built on Eastern Avenue In Acton The is In addition dy approved for the 150 millimeter diameter watermain 18 for a water distribution in Acton In 1983 had gone from the water works emergency fund for this and more money Is not needed The up coming Ontario Munlcl pal Board hearing and the ongoing short age in Acton make the study necessary for a feaslbl lily sludy for servicing from Peel region in Georgetown The town needs more water and more sewage treatment capacity to replace sanitary sewers on ham King Sarah and Union Streets and Boulevard jn Georgetown 85 lo reconstruct a millimeter diameter sanitary sewer on Edward Street from Del rex Boulevard Street in Georgetown An underground look at the sanitary sewer shows It should be replaced to relocate a Cable hike The Canadian and Tele communications Commission has bees asked to approve an Increase In cable television on charges in Georgetown Investment Ltd hat applied to the regulatory agency tor to Increase the canto television hookup charge from to 35 The rate now lo effect win approved by the CfcTCmJuly 1978 The commission hoi not yet decided Tax exemption for get David Chapman may be the king or he castle but left and Andrew will soon he at his heels The threesome were trying out some equipment erected at by the Boy Scouts In Georgetown Water warning for Acton residents By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald Special An Ontario Supreme Court Justice has been asked to find that the national headquarters of the Jehovah Witnesses and a farm which food to that head quarters are entitled to a tax exemptions as a seminary of learning Paul Mclnnis counsel for the International Bible Students Hon of Canada and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society or Canada said the society main purpose is educate interested people about Ihe Bible Part or their workshop service is always devoted to teach ing and the materials used for lessons are produced at the national By Herald Staff This month and next residents are being warned lo be frug when it comes to using waler The familiar problem of not enough water for Acton gets worse in the summertime Worried the demand will exceed what Acton wells can pump out director of public works is pulling notices ing restraint in water use The notices will be in your utility bill If the reservoir starts getting low the direcior of public works may restrict lawn watering to dales If that s not enough then total restriction on lawn watering would be imposed and even cr restrictions on car washing and air Honing cooling These measures haven t been necessary for the past three Although warned of the possible restrictions public works committee members t able to see a report on the topic because It had been pull from the agenda by regional chairman Peter Pomeroy I don appreciate It Hills Mayor Miller said at the meeting He s been eagerly waiting for the report on Acton s future supply Grease fire A grease fire at 5 Lilac Lane in the River Run complex in Georgetown caused 000 damage The fire started May 15 around 30 pm when a pot of grease was left burning on the stove Firefighters had no problem extinguishing the blaze but there was extensive smoke damage throughout house Mushroom worker dies Herald Staff A year old Toronto man Is dead an accident at MeadowGlen Mushrooms located on Mountalnview Road North Antonio Sllvelra was transported by ambulance to the Georgetown District Memorial Hospital Thursday mom but he was pronounced dead on arrival At the time of the accident he was working inside one of the build preparing the mush room beds One of the workers was operating a An Investigation Is being continued by the Regional Police and the Ontario Ministry of Labor Ontario Hydro were also called in invest 1 gale the accident headquarters near Georgetown Mr Mclnnis said association does not claim to have a at the headquarters There are meeting rooms there and some leaching does occur on site but ihe main ing Is done In all the congregations private homes and street corn era across Canada where witnesses teach the public about the Bible Mr described the Association as a seminary and said the fact Witnesses actively go out io teach their religion separates them from other churches They are a leaching group rather than just a religion he said Chris Schulzc counsel Tor regional assessment commissions which cover and Well County said the commission disagreed with association Interpretation of the word seminary While all sides agree that seminaries for re I learning are exempt from taxation the commission feels that means a place an actual physical location not a concept such as the association is saying Mr Schuitxe said the organization primary purpose is the promotion of its particular religious views and the ters purpose is lo control the faith of adhe rents and members If the court finds the asso ciation is like that of other churches then the case is lost If the court finds the organizations prime purpose is teach the commission takes the view the teach Ing must be done on site Don Robertson couns el for Erin Township in which the farms are located which supply food to the headquarter staff of 200 said the seminary need for the supporting lands are the test which will deter mine whether the farms should be classed as grounds and premises used in connection wllh and for the purpose of the seminary Courtesy Guelph Mere Cellular mobile telephone Even ET could use it If E T had wanted to phone home in a hurry he should have used a cellular mobile tele The signal Would have been strong in George town because a 175 foot antenna was recently put up on Armstrong Avenue Jim Taylor of the Hal ton Peel Computer Club demonstrated a new mobile telephone that is hitting the market to his fellow club members last Wednesday Cartel a Canadian owned company recently received permission from the an Radio Television Commission to operate on a frequency with channels A computer switches the trans mission signal from one of the three antennae sites in the region Toronto Hamilton and Georgetown The Georgetown site was chosen because it Is part of a triangular necessary for complete coverage wllh a mobile The system which costs about 2 to has a number of advantages over usual type of mobile car phone said computer club president Colin Davenport A regularly operated mobile phone only has a limited number of channels is neces sary call a mobile operator lo connect the call and often there is a Walling period before the line Is free Mr Daven port said Another disadvantage of old system is that it s easy fc others lo listen In lo your signal The Canlel cellular automatically scans for an open fre quency and it comple tely villi hi said Cellular phones have been In use in the United Slates for almost two years Canada will have 23 transmission centres across the country by July With high cost of using Ihe equipment the telephone Is only useful for those who travel quite a bit such as a sales manager Mr Davenport said However hes dent the price of the cellular mobile phone will come down same way many person a I cum put era and VCRs did after initial Intro duction I Colin Davenport calling home With a new type of telephone that donn require wires Jim Taylor left describes a new device to his frllow of the Peel Computer Club